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Students are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 14, after a shooter opened fire on the campus. —Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP Parkland, Fla. The scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the surrounding area after the shootings shifted from chaos ...

Samantha Haviland, who survived the mass shooting in Columbine High School nearly 20 years ago in Littleton, Colo., talks about the political actions by students in the wake of the massacre at a Parkland, Fla., high school. —David Zalubowski/AP Denver Patrick Neville was outside, sneaking off to smoke with friends, ...

Report Roundup “The Promises, Challenges, and Futures of Media Literacy” Some interventions designed to teach students to be more savvy about consuming media show promise—but the fragmenting media landscape is a far bigger problem than students alone can address, no matter how well-educated they are, argues a new report from ...

Cherry Hill, N.J. Students at a southern New Jersey high school are showing their support for a teacher who was suspended for his comments about the Florida school shooting. A group of Cherry Hill High School East students staged a protest Monday at the school for teacher Timothy Locke. He ...

The B train station at 174-175 Sts./Grand Concourse sits at the southern end of the Bronx neighborhood of Mount Hope, which is sliced into sections by steep hills and highways like the Grand Concourse. Restaurants here are few and far between, so those that thrive serve many purposes and ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Three Rapid City schools were secured after police received a report of a boy pointing a gun at a girl in the area. Authorities say the weapon turned out to be a pellet gun. Movement inside North Middle School as well as Knollwood and General ...

Image copyright EPA Image caption Mr Trump was reportedly nominated for his “ideology of peace by force” by an anonymous American A nomination made for US President Donald Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize was potentially fraudulent, according to the awarding committee. The Norwegian committee has filed a report ...

Mayor de Blasio plans to ax 13 struggling public schools, a move critics say proves his policies aren’t working.
De Blasio’s Panel for Educational Policy is scheduled to vote during a public hearing at lower Manhattan’s Murry Bergtraum High School Wednesday night on his bid to close the ...

Image copyright PA Parents with children aged under two are facing the most striking rise in childcare costs, a survey has found. There have been concerns that the extra cost of providing 30 hours’ free childcare for three and four-year-olds has raised costs elsewhere. The Family and Childcare Trust’s annual ...

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s public broadcaster is suing the country’s vice chancellor for claiming it spreads fake news.
ORF said it was moved to take legal action after nationalist politician Heinz-Christian Strache shared a post on Facebook earlier this month that defamed and discredited the work of ...